Review: Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë and The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain
Another Victorian-era novel. There is the requisite young woman who gets married by the end, but I have to say it was a bit more interesting than Jane Austen's work given the twists and surprises and revelations that wound their way through it.
Jane was thoughtful and intelligent, industrious and passionate. She had an unyielding sense of herself, even if it lead to suffering. Her Aunt Reeves was and impossible, petty woman and the boarding school she sent Jane to was a miserable place, the treasurer a perfect example of a hypocrite.
Mr. Rodchester was a complicated man.
He tried to do the best with what he had been dealt with, even if it seemed he had the deck stacked against him. Sinjin Rivers wasn't a bad person (I really like his name and am probably going to use it or a variation thereof sometime for a character), but his use of God to try and persuade Jane to his desires left an exceptionally bitter taste in my mouth.
The writing and descriptions were excellent. The reader was good, which adds to the enjoyment of these audiobooks.
I did figure out how to suspend my subscription and will cancel it when I'm done listening to these last two acquisitions.
Tom Sawyer had a good reader as well. It was full of youthful superstitions and wandered like the life of semi-feral children are wont to do. Mark Twain did use a lot of colloquial language and if you are offended by seeing or hearing the "n" word used you might want to pass. It was an exciting series of small adventures that loosely linked into the overall plot.
Jane was thoughtful and intelligent, industrious and passionate. She had an unyielding sense of herself, even if it lead to suffering. Her Aunt Reeves was and impossible, petty woman and the boarding school she sent Jane to was a miserable place, the treasurer a perfect example of a hypocrite.
Mr. Rodchester was a complicated man.
He tried to do the best with what he had been dealt with, even if it seemed he had the deck stacked against him. Sinjin Rivers wasn't a bad person (I really like his name and am probably going to use it or a variation thereof sometime for a character), but his use of God to try and persuade Jane to his desires left an exceptionally bitter taste in my mouth.
The writing and descriptions were excellent. The reader was good, which adds to the enjoyment of these audiobooks.
I did figure out how to suspend my subscription and will cancel it when I'm done listening to these last two acquisitions.
Tom Sawyer had a good reader as well. It was full of youthful superstitions and wandered like the life of semi-feral children are wont to do. Mark Twain did use a lot of colloquial language and if you are offended by seeing or hearing the "n" word used you might want to pass. It was an exciting series of small adventures that loosely linked into the overall plot.